Electroweak Symmetry Breaking by Strong Dynamics and the Collider Phenomenology

Abstract

We discuss the possible signatures in the electroweak symmetry breaking sector by new strong dynamics at future hadron colliders such as the Tevatron upgrade, the LHC and VLHC, and $e^+e^-$ linear colliders. Examples include a heavy Higgs-like scalar resonance, a heavy Technicolor-like vector resonance and pseudo-Goldstone states, non-resonance signatures via enhanced gauge-boson scattering and fermion compositeness.

Summary report of the Strong Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Working Group at 2001 Snowmass Summer Studies